Appearing in Next Avenue on June 9, 2025, Chris Farrell interviews NCLC Senior Attorney Odette Williamson for coverage of how more people are borrowing more money to buy more expensive homes, making it hard to pay off mortgages before retirement. “What we’re seeing is that people are cashing out the equity in their homes to…
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Appearing in NerdWallet on June 6, 2025, Eliza Haverstock interviews NCLC Staff Attorney Kyra Taylor for coverage of how student loan borrowers who haven’t made federal student loan payments since October 2024 might default in July or August and how to get loans back into good standing. With essential costs rising and an increasingly complicated…
The new American Arbitration Association (AAA) consumer arbitration rules went into effect in May 2025. The AAA consumer arbitration rules offer multiple opportunities for consumers to avoid an arbitration requirement and to bring an individual or even a class case in court. That the AAA rules allow this has a significant practical impact on consumer…
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NCLC Associate Director Receives Consumer Federation of America’s Highest Honor for Consumer Advocacy
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Appearing in The American Prospect on May 29, 2025, Emma Janssen references NCLC’s work in coverage of how door-to-door solar salespeople can scam homeowners, and what the government could do to stop it. In response to these varied forms of e-signature fraud, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), a legal advocacy organization, sent a letter to…
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Appearing in Payments Dive on May 28, 2025, Patrick Cooley interview NCLC Associate Director Lauren Saunders for coverage of how Fintech trade groups are pressuring New York officials to change buy now, pay later regulations. State-level oversight of the buy now, pay later industry is even more important after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said…
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Appearing in The American Prospect on May 28, 2025, Bryce Covert interviews NCLC Senior Attorney Chi Chi Wu for coverage of how medical credit cards have gone mainstream, preying on sick people at their most vulnerable. With the CFPB dismantled and disempowered, “it’s up to the states now,” Wu said. States likely can’t go after…
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Airing on WBUR on May 28, 2025, Miriam Wasser talks to NCLC Senior Attorney Jenifer Bosco about how LIHEAP, the Low-Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program, popular program that helps low-income families pay for heating and cooling, is on the chopping block. Critics of LIHEAP also argue the program isn’t necessary because most states already…
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The NCLC Digital Library is the product of hundreds of consumer law experts’ contributions over the last 45 years. Odds are the answer to your consumer law questions can be found there. But pinpointing quickly what you need is not always easy, and you may not even be sure what the key issues are in…
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Rep. Brandy Fluker-Reid and Sen. Julian Cyr will join advocates and Massachusetts residents directly impacted by debt-based driver’s license suspensions on May 29 for a briefing to discuss the Road to Opportunity Act.
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